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Date:      Wed, 07 May 1997 15:05:31 -0700
From:      Peter Grehan <grehan@Ipsilon.COM>
To:        Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>
Cc:        Kevin Van Maren <vanmaren@fast.cs.utah.edu>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, smp@csn.net
Subject:   Re: Headsup: SMP_AUTOSTART 
Message-ID:  <199705072205.PAA03731@mailhost.Ipsilon.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 May 1997 17:11:15 EDT." <Pine.LNX.3.91.970507171012.1434I-100000@zen.cypher.net> 

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>stop me if i'm wrong, but there is no such thing as an "application 
>processor" in typical SMP and as far as i knew freebsd smp was pretty 
>typical for early smp unix.

 This is just terminology from the Intel MP specification.

 For other Unix systems, 'application processor's are called
secondary CPU's, or something similar (i.e. all others except the
bootstrap, or primary, CPU).

later,

Peter.



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